The Wise Apple Seed

✨ Product Description: Looking for a fun, movement-based activity to kick off the school year? This All About Me Four Corners Game is the perfect first week of school icebreaker for your 3rd grade classroom! Students will get up, move around, and choose their answers to silly and thoughtful "get to know you" questions—perfect for building classroom community and making new friends! How It Works: Display the slides, read each question aloud, and have students walk to the corner of the room

Have fun with the 6 - 7 trend and have your students come up with 6 or 7 goals for the new year.

Welcome students back to school with this engaging 3rd grade reading resource featuring two short passages focused on Florida! This resource includes: A fiction passage titled “Nia’s Nervous Smile”, a relatable story about a girl’s first day of third grade A nonfiction passage about the history of the first schools in Florida, written at a 3rd grade level with interesting facts Six comprehension questions for each passage, perfect for checking understanding and practicing key reading skills

Document with positive expectations and then color coded classroom dollars.

Simple planner from July to July

Alternative way to teaching theme. I looped with my class and already taught them how to find theme using the traditional story map and focusing on the problem and solution. Once I had them for a second time I noticed they did not retain the idea, even though I felt like I taught it for a full year. I needed a different way to teach them.... I found a few online videos that I liked and merged the ideas. In the PPT I used examples from Finding Nemo as modeled text but there is a place for you to

Set your students up for writing success with this versatile and user-friendly Writing Planning Sheet, designed to support both expository/informational and opinion/persuasive writing tasks. Ideal for grades 3–12, this planning tool helps students break down the writing process into manageable parts and develop organized, well-supported responses—whether based on text or personal knowledge. This resource includes a clear and accessible table of key writing terms, complete with definitions a

Step by step resource that will help your students understand the important "ingredients" of writing a text based essay.

5th Grade Standards Checklist that can be printed for each students and checked off as student masters standard, This is a great resource for parent conferences and also can assist as data when staffing a student.

Project that allows students to be unique and find a profession they just might grow up to become. Students will research three different career paths and present their findings. Great end of the year homework assignment.

Use this activity after going over the rules with your class. Solidify their understanding of the rules by having them work in groups to come up what it should look like, sound like, feel like and what it should not (This/Not That).

Students will create board games and common core questions based on paired text. The directions and template for common core questions are included. The paired text is not, but their is a link to the resources/text you can use.